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This month's cover story for New York magazine is about the guy who assaulted the high fashion woman in his magazine's marketing department. His idols were twiggy, kate moss, eddie sedgewick, and Faye Dunaway from Bonnie and Clyde. As bizarre luck would have it, I had just rented Bonnie and Clyde and watched it last night. Faye has the blonde hair and that highly defined jaw, but I don't see the fantasy. The movie is not very good--it lacks character development and the pace is too fast.

I am trudging through the end of Sartre's study on Baudelaire. The book has given me a lot of reason for thought. Sartre provides a great foil--even as he is desperately wrong he is lucid and forceful. He captures a great deal of Baudelaire's failings and I am especially interested in his ideas about B's 'cult of coldness.' But I am not convinced of any of it--Baudelaire isn't the sort of character that somone like Sarte would understand.

I have been interested today in the intersection of fashion, blogs, and models. I am probably thinking about it because I go to the Ford Model party on Friday. There's an article on all this in Wired which lead me to this blog http://anina.typepad.com/